CPU heavy or GPU heavy?

[Guest]

I'm asking this question because people who support CPU heavy builds and people who support GPU heavy builds both get flak from time to time for suggesting "unbalanced" builds. For the sake of this question, CPU heavy also implies that the motherboard is decent enough to support it (e.g. no 4770K on a H81 board) and GPU heavy implies that the PSU is good enough to support it (no 290X on 450W Raidmax).

 

I know that your specific usage scenario will influence your opinion, but let's ignore that. Simply put, do you like your system CPU heavy or GPU heavy? 

[Freaky_spider]

i like mine balanced ofcourse.

[Faa]

CPU ofc. They all are currently shit and we need more IPC.

[I5ZQ8]

If I'm building for the first time I would do a CPU heavy one so that I can upgrade to a high end GPU later on.

[DavidTheWin]

Balanced generally (slight emphasis on GPU), but I wouldn't dissuade someone from cheaping out slightly on their CPU (and then they can spend less on the motherboard) to get a better GPU if they will only be gaming. Ones that annoy me are the 4670k+GTX760 type builds, spending equal amounts on both CPU and GPU doesn't make sense to me since like 99% (source: my ass) of users won't be CPU bound in anything.

[flibberdipper]

Balanced, but if I had to be biased. I would be more GPU heavy.

[Saladin]

Balanced generally (slight emphasis on GPU), but I wouldn't dissuade someone from cheaping out slightly on their CPU (and then they can spend less on the motherboard) to get a better GPU if they will only be gaming. Ones that annoy me are the 4670k+GTX760 type builds, spending equal amounts on both CPU and GPU doesn't make sense to me since like 99% (source: my ass) of users won't be CPU bound in anything.

Depends on what sort of gaming a user is doing, if you are mostly an FPS guy then that is a bad mix but if you play mostly MMOs then that mix is fine.

[Manny Calavera]

Well balanced in terms of performance, but GPU should cost more than cpu allways.

[Recon-UK]

Balance.

 

Though i like to have more CPU power than my GPU, a bottlenecked CPU is much worse than a GPU bottleneck.

 

 

This is a GTX 480 bottlenecking a 4.8-5.2ghz dynamic clocked 2500k...

 

 

Still smooth and very playable, a necked CPU will cause drops in FPS like mad.

[PixelPips]

When I first built my desktop, it's original plan was to be a work station, so the only good thing I had in it was the processor, a 3930k overclocked. After a while of using it as a workstation, I wanted to use it as a media/game server. I upgraded to 16GB of ram (currently going to put in another 16). After that, I decided "what the hell, lets play some good graphics games", so I upgraded it with an r9 280x. In short, I used to have an incredibly unbalanced build, but over time it got balanced out.

[wng_kingsley7]

I'm asking this question because people who support CPU heavy builds and people who support GPU heavy builds both get flak from time to time for suggesting "unbalanced" builds. For the sake of this question, CPU heavy also implies that the motherboard is decent enough to support it (e.g. no 4770K on a H81 board) and GPU heavy implies that the PSU is good enough to support it (no 290X on 450W Raidmax).

 

I know that your specific usage scenario will influence your opinion, but let's ignore that. Simply put, do you like your system CPU heavy or GPU heavy? 

Well for the fact that most of the members here are pc if not console gamers at the same time. Games demand more graphical horsepower vs cpu power. If quad-core is more than enough for games, the ratio of getting a system balanced enough will be a bit low.

[AMD Lover]

Balanced but if i had to choose i would go CPU because i actually only game once or twice a month

[Rorgash]

you can run new games on ultra using a 4 year old i7 cpu and a 780ti...

[Enderman]

CPU more because GPU only is really important for gaming, while the CPU does all the rest of the processing and computing.

[Blade of Grass]

CPU heavy, because I use my computer for much more than just video games, and not all programs can use GPU acceleration.

[papeles]

even tho i'm on 4670k+ 280x i would say cpu heavy.

 

My next system gonna be on a 6 core i7 (2011 socket) for sure.

[i_build_nanosuits]

I love to get HIGH anti-aliasing and highest possible texture quality and filtering quality so i MUST build PC's with high-end GPU's for myself...CPU i tend to get the cheapest good enough that will run modern games well on highest settings...i play a lot of FPS Action and Racing/sports game so the CPU is usualy secondary to me...i play BF4 online a lot.

[toms94z71]

being that I am running a 4930k and a 780ti i would say balanced. If i had to choose I would lean toward cpu heavy.

[Nickolas47]

CPU